Microsoft Works for Windows Database Instructions

How Do I:
 Add a field?

Adding a Field

  1. Be sure you are in the List view. Place the cursor in a field before or after where you want to add the new field.

  2. Go to Record in the Menu Bar and select Insert Field and choose either before or after current field (the one your cursor is in)

  1. You will get a screen that will allow you to name the field and to determine what kind of field it is and how it should be formatted.

  1. Click on Add when the field is named and formatted. You will get the Insert Field screen again. Click on Done after all the fields you want to add are in the database.

Use these guidelines for formatting fields
General Use to enter both numbers and text
Number Use to enter only numbers and format numbers to have commas, a certain number of decimal places, show as money, etc.
Text Use to enter only text.

If in doubt, use General.

 

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Last edited 5/29/01